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The Various Tribes.
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they next besieged Binondo itself, burning houses and committing many other outrages on the way.
The Spaniards gallantly advanced to repel them, and Das-marinas, the ex-Governor-General, led the attack with the flower of his countrymen ; but the odds against them were
chinese merchants on their way to the joss house.
too great, and scarcely a man was left to tell the tale of their defeat.
The Chinese, flushed with success, now besieged the city itself, but, running short of provisions,awhich the natives were,The Chinese, flushed with success, now besieged the city itself, but, running short of provisions,a which the natives were,